This is a presentation I gave on our work with the Bee Informed Partnership's Hive Scale Program at the 2015 Heartland Apiculture Society's Conference.

1. HIVE SCALE PORTAL
OVERVIEW
Jonathan R. Engelsma, Ph.D.
GVSU School of Computing

2. Web Portal
Researchers
Beekeepers
System Admin
Hives w/Scales
3rd party API

3. Capture Annotations
Location capture:
Display by date: Generate PDF Reports

4. RESPONSIVE DESIGN
• Accomplished viaTwitter
Bootstrap Framework.
• Works well on
smartphones / tablets.

5. WHY INVEST IN AN
ELECTRONIC HIVE SCALE?
• Correlate 24 x 7 weight loss/gain with real world
bee events that matter to you
• Share and learn with your local beekeeping
community
• “serendipitous” learning opportunities

6. WHY SEND DATATO BIP?
• Be a “citizen scientist” by generating and sharing
data sets that will ultimately benefit honeybees,
yourself and the beekeeping community you
belong to.

7. SUPPORTED
MANUFACTURERS
• SolutionBee (B-Ware Smart
Monitor product)
• Arnia
• BeeWatch (Basic & Professional)

8. WHATYOU SHOULD DO
• Carefully annotate your data.
• Set your approximate GPS coordinates.
• SHARE your data set.
• public, limited, and/or on the BIP map!

9. Public MAP: http://beeinformed.org/hive-scale-program/

10. Contact: jonathan.engelsma@gvsu.edu
BIP Scale Program: http://beeinformed.org/hive-scale-program/